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MERCIE, MARIUS JEAN ANTONIN (1845– )

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MERCIE, See also:MARIUS See also:JEAN ANTONIN (1845– ) , See also:French sculptor and painter, was See also:born in See also:Toulouse on the 3oth of See also:October 1845. He entered the l cote See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, See also:Paris, and studied under See also:Falguiere and See also:Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the See also:Grand Prix de See also:Rome. His first See also:great popular successes were the " See also:David " and " Gloria Victis," which was shown and received the See also:medal of See also:honour of the See also:Salon. The See also:bronze was subsequently placed in the Square See also:Montholon. " The See also:Genius of the Arts " (1877), a See also:relief, is in the Tuileries, in substitution for See also:Barye's " See also:Napoleon III."; a similar See also:work for the See also:tomb of See also:Michelet (1879) is in the See also:cemetery of Pere la See also:Chaise; and in the same See also:year Mercie produced the statue of See also:Arago with accompanying reliefs, now erected at See also:Perpignan. In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a See also:group " Quand See also:Memel" replicas of which have been set up at See also:Belfort and in the See also:garden of the Tuileries. " Le Souvenir " (1885), a See also:marble statue for the tomb of Mme See also:Charles See also:Ferry, is one of his most beautiful See also:works. " Regret," for the tomb of See also:Cabanel, was produced in 1892, along with " See also:William Tell," now at See also:Lausanne. Mercie also designed the monuments to " See also:Meissonier " (1895), erected in the Jardin de 1'See also:Infante in the Louvre, and " See also:Faidherbe " (1896) at See also:Lille, a statue of " See also:Thiers " set up at St Germain-en-Laye, the See also:monument to " See also:Baudry " at Pere-la-Chaise, and that of " See also:Louis-Philippe and See also:Queen Amelie " for their tomb at See also:Dreux. His See also:stone group of " See also:Justice " is at the Hertel de Ville, Paris. Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor's See also:hand, which gained him a medal of honour at the Paris See also:Exhibition of 1878 and the grand prix at that of 1889. Among the paintings exhibited by the artist are a " See also:Venus," to which was awarded a medal in 1883, " See also:Leda " (1884), and " Michaelangelo studying See also:Anatomy" (1885)—his most dramatic work in this See also:medium.

Mercie was appointed See also:

professor of See also:drawing and See also:sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the See also:Academic Francaise in 1891, after being awarded the biennial See also:prize of the See also:institute of goo in 1887.

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